In Johnny O'Keefe, Australia boasted its first Elvis-type rock star. His breakout 1958 single "Wild One" was later recorded by Iggy Pop but he's best known as an Aussie TV personality. By the '60s, Australian artists were charting in both UK and USA. The Easybeats, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Bee Gees, the Master's Apprentices and others played guitar-oriented pop and psychedelia inspired by the British Invasion. In the late 70s, AC/DC's pared-down hard rock sound emerged as the country's most recognizable export (members were related to the Easybeats) while glam rockers Sherbert failed to launch. Likewise, Aussie pub rockers Cold Chisel never became a household name anywhere else with post-Vietnam tunes like "Khe-Sanh," but remain enduring favorites at home. On the softer side, the early '80s found the world ready for the sound of Air Supply, Men at Work and the Little River Band, while singer Olivia Newtown John went on to massive chart and film success. The harmonizing Bee-Gees reinvented themselves as a disco group and found massive success stateside with Saturday Night Fever.
.*Genres of Australian Music: Explore each link to find great websites further explaining each genre of music!
Early Australian pop is a story about immigrants doing well on an ongoing basis, of female singers, songwriters and performers as well as popular activities and events. Australian pop is one of our most successful Australian musical exports.
Australian rock music has its roots in the 1950s and '60s when the style of music was growing in popularity around the world. In the 1970s Australian rock bands became well known for classic hard rock. By the 1980s Australian music developed its own distinctive rock sound and became popular the world over.
Country music, a derivative of folk music, originated in southern and western USA and consisted mainly of rural songs accompanied by a string instrument, usually a guitar or fiddle. Country music in Australia has its origins in the folk songs sung from the 1780s to the 1920s, based around themes of Australian folklore, especially bush ranging, loneliness and isolation, endurance, drought,floods, droving and shearing. These themes still endure.
traditional instrumentsin aboriginal music Didgeridoo- wind instrument that is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet
Didgeridoo
Steel Drum- these drums were previously banned and penalized under the death penatly because they were thought to entise a riot
Australian Dance:
Australian Dances were heavily influenced by other cultures taking from both their dances and music and incorporating it into their own. Here: you will find many social dances of australia and the history behind where they originated from.
Ballet was brought to Australia during "The Australian Gold Rush" from Europe. Both dancers from Europe and America were drawn to preforming there. Australian Culture of Dance: Find out what other countries had influences on Australian Dance
Aboriginal Australian Dance vs. Contemporary Australian Dance
Indegenious Dance- Traditional Indigenous Australian dance was closely associated with song and was understood and experienced as making present the reality of the Dreamtime. In some instances, they would imitate the actions of a particular animal in the process of telling a story. For the people in their own country it defined to roles, responsibilities and the place itself. These ritual performances gave them an understanding of themselves in the interplay of social, geographical and environmental forces. The performances were associated with specific places and dance grounds were often sacred places. Body decoration and specific gestures related to kin and other relationships (such as to Dreamtime beings with which individuals and groups). For a number of Indigenous Australian groups their dances were secret and or sacred, gender could also be an important factor in some ceremonies with men and women having separate ceremonial traditions.
Bush dance has developed in Australia as a form of traditional dance, it draws on traditions from English, Irish, Scottish and other European dance. Favourite dances in the community include dances of European descent, such as the Irish "Pride of Erin" and the quadrille "The Lancers". Locally originated dances include the "Waves of Bondi", the Melbourne Shuffle and New Vogue. Many immigrant communities continue their own dance traditions on a professional or amateur basis. Traditional dances from a large number of ethnic backgrounds are danced in Australia, helped by the presence of enthusiastic immigrants and their Australian-born families. It is quite common to see dances from the Baltic region, as well as Scottish, Irish, Indian, Indonesian or African dance being taught at community centres and dance schools in Australia.
Australian Music:
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/australia_853
http://library.thinkquest.org/28994/music.html
Artists Emerging From Australia:
In Johnny O'Keefe, Australia boasted its first Elvis-type rock star. His breakout 1958 single "Wild One" was later recorded by Iggy Pop but he's best known as an Aussie TV personality. By the '60s, Australian artists were charting in both UK and USA. The Easybeats, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Bee Gees, the Master's Apprentices and others played guitar-oriented pop and psychedelia inspired by the British Invasion. In the late 70s, AC/DC's pared-down hard rock sound emerged as the country's most recognizable export (members were related to the Easybeats) while glam rockers Sherbert failed to launch. Likewise, Aussie pub rockers Cold Chisel never became a household name anywhere else with post-Vietnam tunes like "Khe-Sanh," but remain enduring favorites at home. On the softer side, the early '80s found the world ready for the sound of Air Supply, Men at Work and the Little River Band, while singer Olivia Newtown John went on to massive chart and film success. The harmonizing Bee-Gees reinvented themselves as a disco group and found massive success stateside with Saturday Night Fever.
.*Genres of Australian Music: Explore each link to find great websites further explaining each genre of music!
Australian Pop Music:
Early Australian pop is a story about immigrants doing well on an ongoing basis, of female singers, songwriters and performers as well as popular activities and events. Australian pop is one of our most successful Australian musical exports.australian rock music:
Australian rock music has its roots in the 1950s and '60s when the style of music was growing in popularity around the world. In the 1970s Australian rock bands became well known for classic hard rock. By the 1980s Australian music developed its own distinctive rock sound and became popular the world over.
.australian country music
Country music, a derivative of folk music, originated in southern and western USA and consisted mainly of rural songs accompanied by a string instrument, usually a guitar or fiddle. Country music in Australia has its origins in the folk songs sung from the 1780s to the 1920s, based around themes of Australian folklore, especially bush ranging, loneliness and isolation, endurance, drought,floods, droving and shearing. These themes still endure.
australian folk music
Many early Australian singers recycled tunes from England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland and adapted these to lyrics and verse about their experience in the colonies. Songs such as Girls of the Shamrock Shore, Bound for South Australia,Botany Bay, Van Diemen's Land, Maggie May and Convict Maid all tell (often sad) tales of long sea journeys to our distant colonies.
http://www.aboriginalaustralia.com/
Instruments:
traditional instrumentsin aboriginal musicDidgeridoo-
wind instrument that is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet
Steel Drum-
these drums were previously banned and penalized under the death penatly because they were thought to entise a riot
Australian Dance:
Australian Dances were heavily influenced by other cultures taking from both their dances and music and incorporating it into their own.
Here: you will find many social dances of australia and the history behind where they originated from.
Ballet was brought to Australia during "The Australian Gold Rush" from Europe. Both dancers from Europe and America were drawn to preforming there.
Australian Culture of Dance: Find out what other countries had influences on Australian Dance
LANCE+TOM
Australian Music Charts -------->http://www.ariacharts.com.au/
SEE Austrilian Entertainment
Indegenious Dance- Traditional Indigenous Australian dance was closely associated with song and was understood and experienced as making present the reality of the Dreamtime. In some instances, they would imitate the actions of a particular animal in the process of telling a story. For the people in their own country it defined to roles, responsibilities and the place itself. These ritual performances gave them an understanding of themselves in the interplay of social, geographical and environmental forces. The performances were associated with specific places and dance grounds were often sacred places. Body decoration and specific gestures related to kin and other relationships (such as to Dreamtime beings with which individuals and groups). For a number of Indigenous Australian groups their dances were secret and or sacred, gender could also be an important factor in some ceremonies with men and women having separate ceremonial traditions.
Bush dance has developed in Australia as a form of traditional dance, it draws on traditions from English, Irish, Scottish and other European dance. Favourite dances in the community include dances of European descent, such as the Irish "Pride of Erin" and the quadrille "The Lancers". Locally originated dances include the "Waves of Bondi", the Melbourne Shuffle and New Vogue. Many immigrant communities continue their own dance traditions on a professional or amateur basis. Traditional dances from a large number of ethnic backgrounds are danced in Australia, helped by the presence of enthusiastic immigrants and their Australian-born families. It is quite common to see dances from the Baltic region, as well as Scottish, Irish, Indian, Indonesian or African dance being taught at community centres and dance schools in Australia.